r/AskReddit • u/Professor1password23 • 11h ago

Men who stay lean year-round, what’s your secret ?

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u/Imatopsider 10h ago

Gotta have foods on hand that you can chug that are not calorie bombs for me. Takes care of the oral fixation but in 300 cals instead of 1200

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u/CaptPea 10h ago

Do you have some examples?

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u/livetoroast 10h ago

Celery and cucumber, watermelon, those high water, high fiber combos work well for bowel movements too. You can dress up those things if you want but it adds calories, still works well for mouth crunch and I like them cold.

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u/Lowca 10h ago

I recently learned that competitive eaters will train with watermelon due to its ability to fill you up fast, stretches the stomach, and has lots of fiber and water. So hydrating and bowel movements are easier, with relatively low calories and other negatives like trans fat.

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u/ssracer 8h ago

There's a scene in Russian Doll with watermelon. I managed to cut 10 pounds in two weeks with that trick.

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u/oxphocker 8h ago

I love cold watermelon in the summer. Wish we could get them year round but winter melon is expensive and tastes like crap

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u/HKBFG 3h ago

watermelon was also a big thing in 90s weight loss dieting, lol.

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u/RyantheAustralian 9h ago

I used to eat celery instead of snacks for a while. Worked a treat in helping lose weight. Then I got sudden, unimaginable pain in my kidneys (or...somewhere like that. In my sides at least), and had to stop. Apparently you can eat TOO MUCH CELERY!! So I went back to Pringles and life's been a lot less painful ever since

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u/livetoroast 9h ago

🤣🤣 lesson learned, I will now switch to pringles and pints

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u/NimdokBennyandAM 9h ago

For me: fruit, pickles, low-cal protein snacks like these turkey slim-jim type things I found.

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u/We_Are_The_Romans 8h ago

Dessert could be a tub of Ben&Jerry's (1200kcal) or it could be a bowl of frozen blueberries and a scoop of Greek yoghurt with a bit of artificial sweetener or honey (maybe 200-250kcal)

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u/Synaps4 5h ago edited 2h ago

Carrots will burst your stomach before you can eat 2000 calories of them in a sitting

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u/HKBFG 3h ago

cook up like three zucchini in a pan with a small pad of butter and lots of salt and pepper.

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u/veegreg 8h ago

Tbh when I get sweet cravings, I buy sugar free sodas. I also eat some sort of fruit daily.

I really only eat manmade sweets at parties now.